Stop for skates



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH LYON, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

sToP FOR SKATES.

Specification forming partof Letters Patent No. 42,955, dated May 31, 1864.

To all whom 1t may concern:

Be it known th .t I, JOSEPH LYON, of the city of Newark, county of Essex, State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Stop for Skates; and I do hereby decare that the following is a full and exact description thereof.

The nature of my invention consists in notching the rummerot' the rocker-skate near the heel, so that the skater may stop with greater ease than is possible without this improvement.

To enable Othr r; skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

I construct my skate in the same manner as the ordinary rocker-skate, except that I make a notch in the bottom of the runner near the heel, which notch enables the skater to stop with the same facility as with the \common skate, while for the purposes of skating backward he has all the advantages of the full rocker-skate.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure Letters Patent for, is-

Notching the bottom of the runner of the rocker-skate near the heel, so that the skater may stop quicker than without this improvement.

JOSEPH LYON;

WVitnesses J. ARCHIE BIKER, WM. LYoN. 

